BISHOP MILL PERMITTING UPDATE
CMC Metals Ltd. has received confirmation from the Lahontan Water Board that the application submitted for installation of a Class A tailings pond design at the Bishop mill facilities has been deemed complete. This will allow the water board to conduct the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) assessment and complete the approval review prior to forwarding recommendations for approval to the Lahontan Water Board. Based on feedback from the Lahontan Water Board assessor, the application should be ready for approval early June. There have been several delays due to information requests on hydrological characterization, installation of two additional monitoring wells and base water quality analysis. Once the approval has been completed, the amended plan of operation submitted to the Bureau of Land Management can be reviewed for acceptance. During meetings with the BLM, it was stated that the amended plan of operation should be ready for acceptance within a month after the water board's approval. Construction of the Class A pond will start immediately once the plan of operation has been accepted. Construction, mill upgrades and commissioning will occur during the months of July and August. The company anticipates that the Bishop mill facilities will have all approvals and be operating at full capacity within six months. The Bishop mill is designed to process a wide range of ore sources and will have a capacity rating to process 100 tons per day. The company is evaluating a number of offers that would dictate the start-up ore to be processed and will be reported soon. Current proposals being evaluated are more than double the mill-rated capacity
This news release was from March 0f 2011!They were going to get the mill running in 2011.
The mill will not run in 2014.Some people post on this board that are paid by the company.
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